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High school teacher Britte Olafsson has found herself unexpectedly drawn to the new principal (and ex-Marine) Joel Kingsley. His intense self-discipline matches her own, and when trouble at school erupts, he strongly moves to support her. Despite the fact that friends and a fiancé have left her in the past, Britte tentatively begins to open her heart to him....
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Things aren't always what they seem on Waverly Lane... After moving to the outskirts of Charleston, South Carolina, Shelby Anderson decides to form a book club to get to know her neighbors and build a new life after her old one imploded. Little does she know that the women who show up with homemade cookies and perfectly manicured nails have a whole host of secrets of their own. Will her new book club lead to lifelong friendships or put her in the...
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Redheaded, curly-haired Zoe is openhearted, kind and free-spirited, and dreams of becoming a famous actor in New York City. Shy Emily struggles with mental health but has the heart and soul of a writer. And Shannon -- tall, athletic,strong -- has a deep sense of loyalty that will serve her well when she heads off to military college. As Zoe, Emily and Shannon grow into women -- forging careers, following dreams and finding love -- they'll learn...
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Other way home volume 4
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Popular fiction author Sally John's first series The Other Way Home (more than 65,000 copies sold) comes to life with a fresh, new cover for a new audience of readers.
In A Winding Road Home, the fourth book of the series, two stories are beautifully woven together. Kate Kilpatrick has only one goal-a byline above the fold in a high profile newspaper. But Tanner Carlucci challenges her determination to put career above everything.
Adele Chandler gave...
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One of Madeline Cullen's happiest childhood memories is of working with her Aunt Maddie in the quaint and cozy Printed Letter Bookshop. But by the time Madeline inherits the shop nearly twenty years later, family troubles and her own bitter losses have hardened Madeline's heart toward her once-treasured aunt-and the now struggling bookshop left in her care. While Madeline intends to sell the shop as quickly as possible, the Printed Letter's two employees...
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Upbeat cancer survivor Lydia Goetz and her sister, Margaret, start a "Knit to Quit" group in their Blossom Street yarn store in Seattle, bringing in an assortment of customers for weekly self-help sessions. It's for people who want to quit something -- or someone! and start a new phase of their lives. The group includes a local baker who wants a baby as much as Lydia does, a chocolate magnate who needs a way to deal with the stresses of running his...
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In A Journey by Chance, the first book of the series, Dr. Gina Philips heads from Southern California to the tiny Midwest town of Valley Oaks for her cousin's wedding. Her plan to heal from a failed relationship and escape from a lost job is interrupted by the persistent attention of a local, Brady, and the quirkiness of small town America. But just when Gina thinks she has the town figured out, a secret is revealed that will forever change her family...
10) The summer house
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Lily Bishop wakes up one morning to find a good-bye note and divorce papers from her husband on the kitchen counter. Having moved to Alabama for his job only weeks before, Lily is devastated, but a flyer at the grocery store for a hair stylist position in a local retirement community provides a refuge while she contemplates her next steps. Rose Carrigan built the small retirement village of Safe Harbor years ago--just before her husband ran off with...
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"A recipe for living. . . New friends can be found in unexpected places. For Bridget and Amy, that place was the cancer ward of an Anchorage hospital. Now, as each struggles to overcome loss, they lean on each other for support--sharing suppers, laughter and tears. Bridget and Amy aren't about to let hardship knock them down--Bridget plans to return to her veterinarian school studies, Amy to her position as a second-grade teacher--but neither feels...
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"At 26, idealistic baker Mia West has her entire life planned out: a Craftsman cottage in Seattle, baking at The Butter Emporium, and the love of her life, her boyfriend Ethan, by her side. But when Ethan breaks up with her instead of proposing on their sixth dating anniversary (with the Tiffany blue box in his pocket), Mia's carefully planned future crumbles. Adrift and devastated, she determines to find new meaning in her life by helping those...
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Fog Harbor romance volume 01
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"After Ingrid Erikson jeopardizes her career, she fears her future will remain irrevocably broken. But when the man who shattered her belief in happily-ever-afters offers her a sealed envelope from her late best friend, Ingrid is sent on a hunt for a hidden manuscript and must confront her past before she can find the healing she's been searching for"--
As a senior acquisitions editor for Fog Harbor Books in San Francisco, Ingrid Erikson has rejected...
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Shipshewana Amish mysteries volume 1
Shipshewana Amish mystery volume 01
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Shipshewana Amish mystery volume 1
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"In the Amish community of Shipshewana, two women-one Amish, one English-reluctantly join forces for a short-term business venture. Neither is looking for friendship, but when the town's newspaper editor is murdered, and an unexpected prime suspect is identified, the women form an unlikely alliance to solve the mystery"-- Publisher's site.
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Five Island Cove volume 09
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After an eventful summer that shook up relationships of the women in Five Island Cove, Madeline Lancaster is starting to feel a sense of normalcy in the midst of chaos. Her son is married, and she's finally settled as the manager of the newest, more popular, completely upscale restaurant on Diamond Island - The Glass Dolphin. Oh, and she gets engaged. Holiday life in the cove is perfect...until an act of vandalism at The Glass Dolphin triggers...
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When Laine Forrester travels to France to attend her longtime friend's vineyard wedding, she expects to find a bride on the brink of a fairy-tale life. But after a series of unforeseen setbacks--a devastating diagnosis, a castle restoration put on hold, and the emergence of deep-seated family dynamics that threaten to derail the new couple's fledgling marriage--it seems the storybook life Laine had imagined for her friend--and once, for herself--is...
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"Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland's dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years into the Great Depression, Rena's banker father has retreated into the bottle, her sister is married to a lazy charlatan and gambler, and Rena is an unemployed newspaper reporter. Eager for any writing job, Rena accepts a position interviewing former slaves for the Federal Writers' Project. There, she meets...
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"In the Southern town of Mystic Water, magic is always in the wind -- and in the ovens. Anna O'Brien inherited several gifts from her late Grandma Bea: culinary superpowers, a bakery in a charming Southern town, and a mysterious box with a note: Open the box only when you need to. You'll know exactly when you do, and you'll know what to do with it. I love you. The night her presumed fianc©♭ crushes her dreams, Anna opens the box and finds "magic...
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Sunday potluck club volume 2
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USA Today bestselling author Melissa Storm reunites the members of the Sunday Potluck Club--and their adorable rescue dogs--in a heartwarming story of friendship and second chances. In the rapidly blooming courtyard beneath Bridget Moore's new Anchorage apartment, the signs are unmissable: spring has come. As she unpacks boxes, Bridget hopes that she too is moving forward. With her tight schedule--college, working as a vet tech, volunteering at the...
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